Author profile: Sandrine Baume

Sandrine Baume is Associate Professor at the Centre for Public Law in the Faculty of Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research focuses particularly on the theory of the democratic state. She has also published Carl Schmitt, penseur de l’Etat : Genèse d’une doctrine (Presses de Sciences Po, 2008).

Hans Kelsen and the Case for Democracy

Sandrine Baume • May 8 2013 • Articles

Kelsen’s theory of democracy is intimately tied to his thinking about law, primarily his refusal to surrender to any of the mythologies that denature investigation of legal and political phenomena.

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